The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has condemned Iran’s attack on Israel committed this Tuesday and has called for an end to the spiral of violence. This was indicated in a message published through his social networks, where he also asked that international and humanitarian law be respected. Along the same lines, the Foreign Minister, Jose Manuel Albareshas condemned “without hesitation” the attack and has warned that it is a “new step towards a total regional war”.
In a message through X, formerly Twitter, the President of the Government has also indicated that has had a telephone conversation with the secretary general of United Nations, Antonio Guterres, to address “the alarming situation” in the Middle East.
“I have just spoken with Antonio Guterres about the alarming situation in the Middle East. The Government of Spain condemns Iran’s attack against Israel and calls for this spiral of violence to end now. To achieve peace, a ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon is essential, and that international law and international humanitarian law are respected,” he wrote.
For its part, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has published a statement categorically condemning bombings in Iran and asking the international community to mobilize immediately to stop the “regional escalation of unforeseeable consequences.”
Albares himself has also spoken about the attack, who has also shown himself “very concerned” about the “extremely serious” situation in the Middle East. For this reason, he has insisted on a call to all actors involved for containment, non-escalation and responsibility, once again demanding a two-state solution to end the conflict.
“Spain was doing everything in its power to prevent what is happening from happening and It is the extension of the war to Lebanon. We have seen an Israeli incursion into Lebanon, which is a sovereign State, and the launching of rockets from Iran at Israel, which we unequivocally condemn. “It is a new step towards a total regional war.”he lamented in statements to Cadena Ser.
Albares has also maintained that the international community is called to be “very conscious” of the extreme seriousness of the conflict which, he has reiterated, is “changing its nature” and involving more and more countries. “Everyone must make an effort towards containment and de-escalation,” he asserted.
An “immediate” ceasefire
Along the same lines, in another interview on RNE, the minister has claimed the need to an “immediate ceasefire in Gaza”as well as “a truce in Lebanon immediate. At the same time, he has asked that “the peace conference be opened by which Spain “he has been working for so many months.”
In this sense, he recalled that last week he met for the first time with his Iranian counterpart and He asked for “containment” for his country and his government as well as for those related groups such as Hezbollah. “The conflict is mutating in a very dangerous way to a clearly regional extension,” he warned.
Israel has experienced this Tuesday the second major direct attack by Iran in a matter of monthsa massive bombardment with missiles that The Iranian Revolutionary Guard has justified it as revenge for the murder in July in Tehran of the then leader of HamasIsmail Haniye, and the death last Friday in Beirut of the top leader of Hezbollah, Hasan Nasrallah.
